Video Review of Transformers Studio Series #32 2007 Movie Optimus Prime

He is taller than SS-05! I’m waiting for the rumored DOTM Optimus, but if that doesn’t pan out I’m totally ok with this one.

Given recent leaks, I'm inclined to believe it but we'll have to wait and see.

Nice. Really didn't expect him to be taller this time. The size on the first one didn't bother me much until Ironhide came out and made him look too small so this new one's height increase is welcome. I like that you can see the truck window visor parts peeking at top of the chest windows now which you couldn't on the old one. Think the only area the figure got downgraded is that the piece on the lower legs which folded down over the remaining lower wheels no longer does. Other than that it's a huge improvement.




Swipey, Barry and Boney all look great too. Gonna be spending a fair chunk of money start of 2019 it seems.

Prime is a huge improvement. Taller, proportions look better, colors look better...I might actually pick this version up.

Bonecrusher is still a disappointment though. He already only comes up to the first SS Prime's belly, he's going to look even shorter next to the second version.

That Bonecrusher review... man, that battle of Prime and Boney from the 2007 movie still looks far better than anything I saw in the new Bumblebee film today. Bonecrusher figure size looks decent to me too. If you want bigger though there is a third party one that's pretty huge. This Studio Series version looks fine to me and will be bought with the rest of this wave.

So far, I haven't bought a single SS deluxe. Maybe because I keep my TF purchases to a minimum and/or it really bum me out to buy "ordinary movie deluxes" at 30$.

-Kanrabat- wrote:So far, I haven't bought a single SS deluxe. Maybe because I keep my TF purchases to a minimum and/or it really bum me out to buy "ordinary movie deluxes" at 30$.

Do they not have them on reduced price anywhere there? I bought most of mine for typical RRP (and in a few cases more including Jazz and Lockdown at £30 each when the RRP is £23, just so I could have them a bit earlier) but The Entertainer here in the UK has been selling wave 1 and 2 Deluxes for about £16 each. Is how I got Stinger recently (and liked it way more than I thought I would).

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:So far, I haven't bought a single SS deluxe. Maybe because I keep my TF purchases to a minimum and/or it really bum me out to buy "ordinary movie deluxes" at 30$.

Do they not have them on reduced price anywhere there? I bought most of mine for typical RRP (and in a few cases more including Jazz and Lockdown at £30 each when the RRP is £23, just so I could have them a bit earlier) but The Entertainer here in the UK has been selling wave 1 and 2 Deluxes for about £16 each. Is how I got Stinger recently (and liked it way more than I thought I would).

The only one that I would be willing to pay for, but at 50% off, is SS Jazz. And he was just like a drop of water in a hot pan localy. And no way am I gonna pay full price nor ordering it online. I still feel the burn from that 55$ TLK Cogman (still available everywhere like roaches at 15$)

-Kanrabat- wrote:
The only one that I would be willing to pay for, but at 50% off, is SS Jazz. And he was just like a drop of water in a hot pan localy. And no way am I gonna pay full price nor ordering it online. I still feel the burn from that 55$ TLK Cogman (still available everywhere like roaches at 15$)

55 dollars? How did that happen? Mine didn't cost anywhere near that much and I got it early. :O

The Entertainer in Cambridge literally does have SS Jazz in for £16.80. They had at least two of them that I could see on the shelves (I was looking for Crowbar at that price but he's gone). They still have it on the website at https://www.thetoyshop.com/action-toys- ... 4611_E0745 but I guess that doesn't help you at all. Oh well, i hope you get lucky.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:55 dollars? How did that happen? Mine didn't cost anywhere near that much and I got it early. :O

I talk in Canadian dollars but still. Cogman just refused to come out and he was rumored to be a rare "tail-line" figure. One that will barely appear in store before being gone forever. It happened a bit too often in the past. Because TLK Cogman was the only TLK deluxe I really cared about, I didn't took any chances and I ordered it from China. 55$CAN was the total price including shipping. It was the best price available back then.

Oh and before that, I was in an hurry to have the DOTM Ultimate Optimus Prime. I imported it from the USA at almost 140$CAN with shipping. Then just 2 or 3 months later, the damn thing was priced 80$CAN plus taxes everywhere and he even went on clearance at 50$CAN.

Seriously, I'm done ordering ANY Movie figures online. Seem that I ALWAYS get screwed over every times that I do. Appart DOTM Guzzle, Movie figures always land in stores and always get dirt cheap eventually. Plus I know that I'll have another shot at Jazz because he'll be included in the next wave of SS deluxes. And even then, I'll wait for a sale.

dotm guzzle AND rotf lockdown

william-james88 wrote:dotm guzzle AND rotf lockdown

I began to seriously collect at the HFTD times. So I din't knew about ROTF Lockdown. So he was a "drop of water in a hot pan" too? One more to the list.

What is frustrating is we can never know what will be the nest ephemeral store shelf transformers.

With thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Nemesis Primal, we've learned that YouTuber TonTon Reviews has uploaded another review of a forthcoming Studio Series deluxe! This time it's #26 WW2 Bumblebee! Inspired by flashback footage in the fifth Transformers movie, The Last Knight. As well as having a hand held gun, he also comes with a mighty looking hammer,which forms the barrel of the tanks main weapon.

We have embedded the video for your convenience.



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Broken video.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Broken video.

Okay we should be good to go now! I found the problem. Thanks for pointing it out

Good video but showing articulation is waste Of time they all move same in same figure class

dragons wrote:Good video but showing articulation is waste Of time they all move same in same figure class

Some points have become standard like the knees, hips, elbows, shoulders and head, but other points like the feet and waist have not.

dragons wrote:Good video but showing articulation is waste Of time they all move same in same figure class

No it is not. Often, even if the same point of articulations are present, the kibble get in the way. This is important to point out.

Oaky, finally saw the video. Too bad it's a low def blurry mess, but eh, better than nothing.

I'm a bit disappointed that this WW2 bee is a TOTAL SHELLFORMER. He's comparable to AoE Galvatron or even Cybertron Thunderblast. Absolutely NO vehicle get carried over to the robot mode. Plus that color is plain and boring. It should have more dirt and battle damage painted on. Especially for a 30$ deluxe.


I still want it though, for the Legacy. Plus I'm sure Toyhax will come up with an interesting Reprolabels upgrade set.

william-james88 wrote:dotm guzzle AND rotf lockdown

I can testify firsthand to that, I can’t even find a broken version of that figure so I can just get his engine, and it feels like a wast to pay about double the original price when I still have the rest of him AND ratchet’ EMP for him

All this Lockdown talk:





Alt modes scale pretty well, but bot modes put SS Lockdown at the kids' table:

Hard pass

I like it enough but i prefer the third party figure that turns into the old mercedes-benz instead.

You mean, the thing he actually turned into in the movie?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I like it enough but i prefer the third party figure that turns into the old mercedes-benz instead.

IM not feeling bad at saying I'd rather buy this expensive version than wasting my money on the SS one.

ZeroWolf wrote:With thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Nemesis Primal, we've learned that YouTuber TonTon Reviews has uploaded another review of a forthcoming Studio Series deluxe! This time it's #26 WW2 Bumblebee! Inspired by flashback footage in the fifth Transformers movie, The Last Knight. As well as having a hand held gun, he also comes with a mighty looking hammer,which forms the barrel of the tanks main weapon.

We have embedded the video for your convenience.



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That's not true... The back of the car goes into slots in the legs to replicate how his wheels are in the middle of his feet in the film. Also in all fairness, that design wouldn't be able to turn into that car without a little shell forming.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:You mean, the thing he actually turned into in the movie?

Exactly.

-Kanrabat- wrote:IM not feeling bad at saying I'd rather buy this expensive version than wasting my money on the SS one.

Yeah. Dunno how much this one will be. They also have Bulldog (the tank that guards Burton's mansion) and a tri-plane Starscream (with alternate Blitzwing) head too which is also very cool. I need to know the prices. At least since these are Studio scale they shouldn't be as costly as the third party Masterpiece scale toys. Right?

Ok, to round up a few points:

I consider TLK as the start of the SS line. A lot of things from that line carried over, so as far as I am concerned, the TLK guys, and even most of the AOE lot are good for this line.

TLK Hound is a really good figure to me. He is a great Hound and I have no bones with him being the definitive Hound for my collection.

That new Optimus looks great, and I am so glad I passed on the first one.

I did figure out why they did the deco and design choices they did for that first Prime though: The black in the middle of the chest is where he got run through and blasted, and the muted colors reflect his death!

while it's not perfect by any means, I really like the looks of World War Bee, and I'm hoping this means a World War Hot Rod is also in the works to go with his brother.

Finally, have some Dropkick. still holding out hopes for a muscle car version of him

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I consider TLK as the start of the SS line. A lot of things from that line carried over, so as far as I am concerned, the TLK guys, and even most of the AOE lot are good for this line.

TLK Hound is a really good figure to me. He is a great Hound and I have no bones with him being the definitive Hound for my collection.

Yeah, I got him last week for £13.19 from The Entertainer which is almost £20 cheaper than when he first came out and he's a lot of fun and already has made it onto my Studio shelf (along with TLK Prime, Berserker and Megatron. Wave 3 Bumblebee is usually there too but he's on a special mission at present)



I'm very tempted to buy the Dr Wu upgrade kit for Hound (and the Toyhax labels to give him more details and the red cross logos) to add more accurate feet, and extra weapons including his gatling gun thing that turns into the back part of his vehicle which is missing on the TLK figure.

I'm sure this is in the thread somewhere, but I'll ask here anyway. What's the difference between yellow Ratchet (04) and green Ratchet (16), besides the color (obviously)?

Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm sure this is in the thread somewhere, but I'll ask here anyway. What's the difference between yellow Ratchet (04) and green Ratchet (16), besides the color (obviously)?

Gun instead of saw

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm sure this is in the thread somewhere, but I'll ask here anyway. What's the difference between yellow Ratchet (04) and green Ratchet (16), besides the color (obviously)?

Gun instead of saw

That's it? Thanks. I guess I'll be buying the green one, since he'll be paired up with Lockdown in my SS collection.

Took these pictures after seeing a comment in another thread, but figured I'd share these here for funsies. Movie 1 bots vs. Studio bots, and my collective (somewhat) bot and con shelves with Studio Series mixed in for a size comparison. (I have a bunch more near these shelves, but decided it was easier to look at the one shelf for both)

Video review for SS Jetfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uLAK_cZlE&t=911s

Only real improvements are Jetfire's robot mode and the fact that he comes with the axe. Although they didn't get the axe fully correct. In the movie the axe and his cane are one and the same: the axe blades swing out and connect to the top of the cane. For the purposes of this line and its use of 5mm ports, that could be represented by the cane splitting to allow a second 5mm post section on it somewhat above the wheels to be stuck up through the hand, and the axe blades being a piece that slots on top of the cane.

Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

ugh i wish this was a fake... oh well, maybe the toy looks better than the weirdly proportioned and illogical cgi model... now there's lazily designed 'cybertronian' g1 optimus in studio series and siege...

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

ugh i wish this was a fake... oh well, maybe the toy looks better than the weirdly proportioned and illogical cgi model...

At least I'M hyped outta my wits. So sh.

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

Oh god how many voyager Optimus Primes am I gonna have by next year? I keep wanting them all and they just keep getting better!

SillyMcGilly wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

ugh i wish this was a fake... oh well, maybe the toy looks better than the weirdly proportioned and illogical cgi model...

At least I'M hyped outta my wits. So sh.

Thsy should have done that in the Bumblebee movie line instead of the Evasion mode-style Legendary Optimus Prime that doesn't appear in the film at all. Does this mean Studio Series is gonna be taken over by all those damn g1-style bots from the cybertron scenes? We already have that stuff in Siege where it doesn't contaminate my movie collection.

That and the new IDW G1 reboot Prime and Megatron looking much the same as they did ever did just shows the franchise is all out of ideas...

Autobot Roadburn wrote:Oh god how many voyager Optimus Primes am I gonna have by next year? I keep wanting them all and they just keep getting better!

This site needs a like button, foreal.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime:


https://m.facebook.com/TFUTH/photos/a.5 ... 547001989/

ugh i wish this was a fake... oh well, maybe the toy looks better than the weirdly proportioned and illogical cgi model...

At least I'M hyped outta my wits. So sh.

Thsy should have done that in the Bumblebee movie line instead of the Evasion mode-style Legendary Optimus Prime. Does this mean Studio Series is gonna be taken over by all those damn g1-style bots from the cybertron scenes? We already have that stuff in Siege where it doesn't contaminate my movie collection.

That and the new IDW G1 reboot Prime and Megatron looking much the same as they did ever did just shows the franchise is all out of ideas...

You say that like it's a terrible thing.

Also this is the new movie. Not IDW. Ffs. Let me enjoy my dream movie.

SillyMcGilly wrote:You say that like it's a terrible thing.

It is is you're absolutely sick to death of G1 which I have pretty much been since... well... the late 80s bar an occasional purchase here and there of updated toys most of which were then sold off soon after.

Fine if it has it's own separate things but when it starts taking over non-G1 stuff that folk like me love to collect it's a bit of a kick in the teeth.

Also this is the new movie. Not IDW. Ffs. Let me enjoy my dream movie.

Never said it was. I saw the movie last Saturday. It was not great.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:You say that like it's a terrible thing.

It is is you're absolutely sick to death of G1 which I have pretty much been since... well... the late 80s bar an occasional purchase here and there of updated toys most of which were then sold off soon after.

Fine if it has it's own separate things but when it starts taking over non-G1 stuff that folk like me love to collect it's a bit of a kick in the teeth.

Also this is the new movie. Not IDW. Ffs. Let me enjoy my dream movie.

Never said it was. I saw the movie last Saturday. It was not great.

Bay has overstayed his welcome. TLK bombed, and for good reason. Stop acting like onetoy out of a movie where most of the main cast are new designs is the end of creativity as we know it. There are many more people who wanted to see this toy made than not, and Studio Series is the only place it fits. It all comes down to: If you don't like it, save it for me. Shatter and Dropkick and ESPECIALLY Blitzwing should be Bayish enough to suite your fancy, so that proves they wanna appeal to everyone. Stop taking it so fucking personal, sheesh..

And I will be the judge of that this weekend, Bayboy.

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bay has overstayed his welcome. TLK bombed, and for good reason. Stop acting like onetoy out of a movie where most of the main cast are new designs is the end of creativity as we know it.

I didn't say just one toy. I referred to all the G1 stuff in the movie and the IDW reboot just using all the boring new G1 siege toys rather than doing anything fresh and interesting.

Shatter and Dropkick and ESPECIALLY Blitzwing should be Bayish enough to suite your fancy, so that proves they wanna appeal to everyone.

What do you mean 'ESPECIALLY' Blitzwing? He was the most G1-ish of those three! Hell, everyone thought he was a G1-inspired Starscream for crying out loud... And that's not the point. If that movie is a prequel (like several elements of the plot and certain character designs suggest) then it's saying ALL the Transformers I've spent past 11 years collecting and admiring actually used to look like their G1 counterparts that I do not!

Stop taking it so **** personal, sheesh..

Yeah I should totally be quiet and have no complaints or voice my opinion at all. Like all those G1 fans did from 2007 to 2017. Yeah cos I sure never got a bashing from any of them when i expressed my love for the movie designs.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SillyMcGilly wrote:Bay has overstayed his welcome. TLK bombed, and for good reason. Stop acting like onetoy out of a movie where most of the main cast are new designs is the end of creativity as we know it.

I didn't say just one toy. I referred to all the G1 stuff in the movie and the IDW reboot just using all the boring new G1 siege toys rather than doing anything fresh and interesting.

Shatter and Dropkick and ESPECIALLY Blitzwing should be Bayish enough to suite your fancy, so that proves they wanna appeal to everyone.

What do you mean 'ESPECIALLY' Blitzwing? He was the most G1-ish of those three! Hell, everyone thought he was a G1-inspired Starscream for crying out loud... And that's not the point. If that movie is a prequel (like several elements of the plot and certain character designs suggest) then it's saying ALL the Transformers I've spent past 11 years collecting and admiring actually used to look like their G1 counterparts that I do not!

Stop taking it so **** personal, sheesh..

Yeah I should totally be quiet and have no complaints or voice my opinion at all. Like all those G1 fans did from 2007 to 2017. Yeah cos I sure never got a bashing from any of them when i expressed my love for the movie designs.

I like the movie designs too. At least.. Some of them. But sometimes "new" isn't NEW anymore. New to me is making a movie that actually brings the original cartoon's concepts to a cinematic form. We've had 5 movies of Bayhem and Bayformers since 2007 ffs. Sometimes old is the new new.

And about Blitzwing, he's the least G1 to me because he looks so different from his original design. That gas mask face is super sick though.

Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Silly McGilly, we've learned that Transformers Universe Thailand Facebook Group has leaked a look at the instructions for a potential Studio Series toy of Optimus Prime as seen in the Transformers Bumblebee movie!



While there isn't a lot to go on as we see a close up of the figure's chest shoulders and head but we can see that it's like all other Optimus in the line so far and is a Voyager class and is given the number #38, meaning that if indeed real, he'll be in the wave after Bonecrusher and 2007 Optimus (potentially).

Please bare in mind that we have had no official word from Hasbro on this figures existence so please treat all news on the subject till confirmed.

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I hope this is true. 4 years ago I thought with AOE evasion mode optimus was the optimus we had always wanted for the films. I was wrong. This is the Optimus we always wanted.

I have major mixed feelings about the studio Series as a whole. I'm no fan of the movies and most of the designs to me look like they threw a can into a shredder and called it a robot. But I decided to give the line a try because I don't like slagging things off without at least trying them and I've been met with mostly disappoinment. Stinger's shoulder pad snapped off, ratchet is a loose mess with panels that won't stay tabbed, you literally can't transform the first bumblebee or crowbar without half of it's bits falling off, blackout is a clumsy mess with an alt mode that doesn't hold together, Jazz's alt mold can't peg together properly, I can't transform the Volkswagen bumblebee because the headlights are fused in place, and Dropkick is just overall dreadful. I haven't been collecting seriously long (I mainly started in combiner Wars) but I've collected nearly every single figure to come out of the prime wars trilogy and I haven't had this many problems with any of those lines.

So now here's where the mixed feelings come in, I WANT this line to be good. While I don't like the movies or the designs really, the movies are pretty important to me. I'm 24 so I didn't grow up with G1 and no one in my family or even my friends like Transformers so the live action movies was the first experience I had with this fandom. It got me interested in the mythos of the whole brand which eventually lead to my discovery, and love, of the G1 continuity. So I want to have a representation of this introduction on my shelves and the fact that I've just been met with disappointment so far is really disheartening. I think the new WW2 Bumblebee looks good but the fact that it's a total shell former kind of ruins it. I think sideswipe and barricade look great but seeing as all but 2 of the figures I've collected from this line have alt mode issues it makes me majorly question whether or not I want to keep up with the line.

This new Optimus might be the make or break for me. I really like the new design but if it turns out to have another bad alt mode then I think I'll have to call it quits on the Studio Series.

I really hope that this is a fake, I want the constructicons to be released not another prime (or bumblebee)! I wish that they would reveal what number 31 since it should be releasing soon.

steals_your_goats wrote:I have major mixed feelings about the studio Series as a whole. I'm no fan of the movies and most of the designs to me look like they threw a can into a shredder and called it a robot. But I decided to give the line a try because I don't like slagging things off without at least trying them and I've been met with mostly disappoinment. Stinger's shoulder pad snapped off, ratchet is a loose mess with panels that won't stay tabbed, you literally can't transform the first bumblebee or crowbar without half of it's bits falling off, blackout is a clumsy mess with an alt mode that doesn't hold together, Jazz's alt mold can't peg together properly, I can't transform the Volkswagen bumblebee because the headlights are fused in place, and Dropkick is just overall dreadful. I haven't been collecting seriously long (I mainly started in combiner Wars) but I've collected nearly every single figure to come out of the prime wars trilogy and I haven't had this many problems with any of those lines.

So now here's where the mixed feelings come in, I WANT this line to be good. While I don't like the movies or the designs really, the movies are pretty important to me. I'm 24 so I didn't grow up with G1 and no one in my family or even my friends like Transformers so the live action movies was the first experience I had with this fandom. It got me interested in the mythos of the whole brand which eventually lead to my discovery, and love, of the G1 continuity. So I

want to have a representation of this introduction on my shelves and the fact that I've just been met with disappointment so far is really disheartening. I think the new WW2 Bumblebee looks good but the fact that it's a total shell former kind of ruins it. I think sideswipe and barricade look great but seeing as all but 2 of the figures I've collected from this line have alt mode issues it makes me majorly question whether or not I want to keep up with the line.

This new Optimus might be the make or break for me. I really like the new design but if it turns out to have another bad alt mode then I think I'll have to call it quits on the Studio Series.

All of my studio series figures have turned out just fine. The worst experience I've ever had with one was that my Ironhide was missing his silver Autobot Symbol. That and I guess ratchets legs being a but loose. I can transform my 01 Bumblebee without stuff falling off. The back of the helicopter is the only reports we've had of Blackout not staying together, and the arms not tabbing in, which isn't a huge deal. Stinger breaking is most likely your fault, or you may have just gotten a bad copy.

I do have a fix for your Jazz though. The car mode can stick together just fine. The instructions neglect to mention that you're supposed to use the plug on the roof and plug it into the port on his bottom torso. It's where a figure stand is supposed to go. Just do this easy step, and you should be good to go.